Advances in small bowel imaging

Current Gastroenterology Reports

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 408-417

  Tennyson, Christina A ^b   Semrad, Carol E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Bleeding; Capsule endoscopy; Celiac disease; Crohn's disease; Enteroclysis; Enterography; Enteroscopy; Small bowel imaging; Small intestine; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM 99M;

ARTICLE; BEHCET DISEASE; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CELIAC DISEASE; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOUBLE BALLOON ENTEROSCOPY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINAL BLEEDING; INTESTINE CARCINOMA; INTESTINE ENDOSCOPY; INTESTINE EXAMINATION; INTESTINE INFECTION; INTESTINE ISCHEMIA; INTESTINE LYMPHOMA; INTESTINE PERFORATION; INTESTINE TUMOR; INTRAOPERATIVE ENDOSCOPY; MECKEL DIVERTICULUM; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREATITIS; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT SAFETY; PUSH ENTEROSCOPY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE BALLOON ENTEROSCOPY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SMALL INTESTINE DISEASE; SPIRAL ENDOSCOPY;

ANGIOGRAPHY; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOUBLE-BALLOON ENTEROSCOPY; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES; INTESTINE, SMALL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80755163634     PISSN: 15228037     EISSN: 1534312X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11894-011-0221-9     Document Type: Article

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